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So why exactly does Guy Pearce have to go a prison in space and rescue the president's daughter from a prison riot, in the Luc Besson-produced Lockout? This new U.S. trailer explains everything, including the fact that it's all some one-eyed Scottish bloke's fault. More »
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MS One: Maximum Security — previously titled Lockout — feels like the love child of Die Hard and Escape from New York. In this behind the scenes footage, watch as main character Guy Pearce has a hell of a time channeling both John McClane and Plissken. He's the new lovable rogue who's sure to win the day and the girl! This feature is tag-team directed by James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, and it was co-written and produced by Luc Besson. Here's a synopsis: More »
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Missing the cheesy, wise-cracking antihero action flicks of the 90s? Well, have we got a movie for you. Watch Guy Pearce channel his best Bruce Willis in this trailer for MS One: Maximum Security. When a maximum security SPACE PRISON riots, the only righteous person left is the wise-cracking cop with great arms and a problem with authority. Oh cheesy science fiction action movies, where have you been the last few years? More »
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There's one thing you can always count on in a horror movie nowadays: a father who's kind of a jerk. Everybody else in the family knows there's something supernatural going on, but the dad refuses to believe it. And acts like a total schmuck about it, too. More »
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Not to be confused with that freaky Nickelodeon show, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark is a Guillermo del Toro-penned-and-produced remake of a 1973 TV movie about wee, skittering monsters who harass an old mansion's new tenants. More »
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The only thing we ever wanted from the Guillermo del Toro-produced demon-kidnapping film Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark was for it to be straight-up terrifying. But the movie's first review claims it's not just super-scary, it's actually really good. More »
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Luc Besson, writer/producer of Taken, is putting Maggie Grace back in danger — but this time she's in a SPACE PRISON! It's called Lockout. We're in, as long as Lockout has as many throat punches as Taken did. More »
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Memento star Guy Pearce is joining Guillermo del Toro's translation of the goblins-in-the-closet movie Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark. More »
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Cormac McCarthy is currently riding a wave of cinematic bliss after the success of the Coen Brothers adaptation of his dark No Country For Old Men. Hopefully that washed the bad taste out of everyone's mouth that was the movie version his All The Pretty Horses. Next up is a film version of McCarthy's dark post-nuclear tale The Road, which Charlize Theron has just agreed to star in. But can Hollywood really do justice to this dark, literary tale? More »
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